Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Post by foobiekr » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:09 PM UTC

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Apple isn't harnessing magic here. The opportunity for competition exists, but everyone else is just sitting on their asses while Apple's chip team puts in the work. If you want to beat Mx, you have to think outside the box, just like how Apple thought outside of x86. That being said, I do enjoy the shift to ARM as the dominant arch. x86 has far too many decades of cruft behind it. I don't think Apple will take over…

I'm really hoping one of the other chipmakers jumps on the RISC-V bandwagon. There's substantial potential to do to ARM what ARM did to x86 here. If Intel/AMD/Qualcomm/Broadcom/whoever started talking about a significant RISC-V offering I'd be buying as much of their stock as I could.

Post by legulere » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:10 PM UTC

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Give Mac software a few years to "catch up" and everything will feel just as slow as usual (and I'm not even joking, so far, software was always excellent at undoing any advancements in hardware very quickly).

I feel like things have felt pretty good in the PC world since NVMe SSDs and approximately Sandy Bridge. But, I do agree that there is a lot of jank in software that we write these days. Over the weekend I started writing an application that uses glfx + dear imgui, running on a 360Hz monitor. The lack of latency was incredible. I think it's something that people don't even know is possible, so they don't even attempt…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC

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> The opportunity for competition exists Perhaps, but I guess it would take on the order of a decade for a competitor to build their technology including an ecosystem with customers. And who says they won't copy Apple's business practices? > but everyone else is just sitting on their asses while Apple's chip team puts in the work. That's because the complexity of the semiconductor industry is daunting. You need far m…

You mean the business practices wherein Apple is 10x better on privacy than everyone else to the point that Facebook and Google are now being forced to be honest with users, disclose all the user data they are stealing and selling, and disclose all the privacy and security risks inherent in their business models? Sign me up for more of those kinds of "business practices", thank you very much.

Post by Tagbert » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:14 PM UTC

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Imagine they put Macbooks on a yearly upgrade cycle like the iPhone - OMG, that would be impressive.

I don't know if you're being serious but, given the lack of improvements in chip design lately, that would indeed be impressive. I don't mind upgrading every other year. I just want the upgrades to be meaningful.

Post by kingsuper20 » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:14 PM UTC

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I would prefer just one 6K or 8K monitor personally at a size of say 55" with a wide ratio. Simpler setup. No post in the middle. Something like this but bigger with higher resolution, and maybe a bit more height vertically (this one is a bit too wide for its height in my opinion): https://www.samsung.com/ca/monitors/gaming/super-ultra-wide-... I think that dual 4K is the old way, single 6K/8K ultra wides are the fut…

I use a 55" 4K Samsung TV as a monitor. It cold boots quickly and has no latency or subsampling issues in the right mode. I can recommend it as a more cost effective alternative to multiple monitors. The amount of available screen space at 1:1 is refreshing (not as crazy as imagined though), but it makes me realize how grainy "normal" monitors are. In some years 8K TVs might be cheap enough for an upgrade, but on tha…